This week brings me to Seattle for Microsoft Build until Wednesday. When I'm not live-tweeting the keynotes I'll be wandering around like a lost puppy angrily trying to find a Starbucks that isn't the one I'm standing inside.

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A quick tour through the strange and confusing service offerings that comprise the AWS IoT universe.

Someone at realtor.com got so irritated with ECS that they built "one that works" in CloudFormation. I can't do it justice-- go read A Better ECS.

AWS needs to hire Jerry Hargrove immediately; his hand-drawn AWS service icons have so much more soul than the official diagrams.

This time we're talking about how Netflix optimized Flink for AWS. You should be more like Netflix, ignoring entirely the fact that you're a multinational bank while they pretty much just stream movies.

This 10,000 word treatise on the fundamentals of RedShift absolutely blows me away. My knowledge of it more or less extends to "unless you want to pour money into it by the truckload, consider Athena instead."

It never hurts to go back to basics-- in this case, on a walking tour of the AWS Management Console. Enough of this changes often enough that it's worth reviewing how it looks today, particularly if you're not a frequent console user.

Introducing Amazon EC2 Fleet - If you're working in the finance department of a large AWS customer and you've painstakingly built out prediction models to optimize your usage of on-demand, spot, and reserved instances, you're about to begin swearing like a sailor: EC2 Fleet now either renders that work obsolete or throws a giant question mark into the equation. I feel your pain.

Dear #askawsabby, My boss refuses to use cloud services, insisting we can build a better, more reliable platform for less money. Where can I find job listings for companies that aren't run by lunatics?

Tools

This well-crafted IAM policy allows users to manage their own passwords and MFA devices-- but nothing else unless they've authenticated with MFA.

Last week I open sourced one of the half-dozen Lambda functions involved in the production of this newsletter. It'll require tweaking to work in other environments / use cases, but every hour I trigger a backup of my Pinboard account for later processing into the email you receive each Monday.

A graphical client for DynamoDB? Sign me up. You can pretty much think of "Dynamon" as phpMyAdmin for DynamoDB, which is a phrase that should cause endless screaming.

...and that's what happened Last Week in AWS.

I’m Corey Quinn. I help people significantly reduce and understand their AWS bills and speak broadly on the conference circuit. I advise companies doing interesting things in the cloud space, such as ReactiveOps.

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